Novikovskaya Diesel Power Plant is a 5 MW oil power plant in Sakhalin, Russia. It is operated by JSC "SAKHALINENERGO". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3.6k homes (estimated). It ranks #658 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 1.2% of Russia's electricity; the national grid averages 450 gCO₂/kWh (35.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061801.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 5 MW, Novikovskaya Diesel Power Plant is below the median oil plant in Russia (12 MW). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by JSC "SAKHALINENERGO".
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 46.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #6 largest oil power plant of 8 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 8 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 99 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 46.368, 143.353 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Novikovskaya Diesel Power Plant is a 5 MW source-record oil power plant in Sakhalin, Russia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 3,604 homes (estimated).
Novikovskaya Diesel Power Plant is operated by JSC "SAKHALINENERGO".
